Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader
Edition: New edition
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 24, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780521604406
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: The classic period of the epistolary novel was also, in the writings of Pope, Horace Walpole, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others, the heyday of the familiar letter.